{"id":3507,"date":"2018-11-26T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wasteyourtime.co\/?page_id=3507"},"modified":"2020-07-10T10:49:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T09:49:33","slug":"profit-and-loss","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/traders-paradise.com\/magazine\/trading-dictionary\/p\/profit-and-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Profit and Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><b>DEFINITION of Profit and loss<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Profit and loss are two terms that are crucial to trading: the financial returns (or outgoings without returns) from any business enterprise or trade.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>WHAT IT IS IN ESSENCE<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This kind of account is opened by recording the gross profit on the credit side or gross loss on the debit side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For earning the net profit, a businessman has to incur many more expenses in addition to the direct expenses. Those expenses are deducted from profit or added to a gross loss and thus, the resultant figure will be net.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Expenses included in the account are, for example, selling and distribution expenses, sales tax, administrative expenses, for example.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, on the credit side, discount received, the commission received a profit on the sale of assets and more appear.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a common term used in trading and is extremely self-explanatory. It simply refers to the total good or bad finance.\u00a0 Made by an individual or group over a certain time period, doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Day traders like to boast about their profits, but two different types actually exist. And the difference between them can be the difference between a bunch of numbers on paper or real cash in the bank. <\/span><\/p>\n<h4><b>HOW TO USE<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is calculated by taking the total revenue derived from the activity and taking away the total expenses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Profit and loss = total revenue \u2013 total expenses<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the resulting number is negative, it is called a loss. If it is positive, it is a profit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Profit and loss are major to traders in several ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are derived from a position when it is closed dictates how much money has been made from the trade or how much it has ended up costing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A business\u2019s often referred to as P\/L, is a key factor in evaluating its fundamentals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION of Profit and loss Profit and loss are two terms that are crucial to trading: the financial returns (or outgoings without returns) from any business enterprise or trade. 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